Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social Previously: UK Labour Party Leader in EurParliament, Yorks&Humber MEP, NEC, ShadowCabinet
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Brexit was a costly mistake.
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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social 🔶Liberal Dem 🔶 Spokesperson on Energy & Climate Change. House of Lords Life Peer. Photographer. Environment and Social Justice. Walker & Mountain Biker. 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
Tony Pickett #FBPE# @tonypickett.bsky.social Lib Demmer, Offshore Radio Anorak, vegetarian, supporter of animal rights. Long suffering West Ham fan and full of useful (or useless!) trivia. Finally left the right wing sesspit that is X. Final straw account was hacked.- A Alex Knight @alexknight68.bsky.social Scientist working as a research project manager in the health data space. eXile. Atheist #FBPE.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
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Prof at Cambridge.
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Anthony Bailey @truthnothingbut.bsky.social Writer of books. Some good, some not so. Mom say's they're all good, but that's what you'd expect your mom to say 📚💙 #booksky
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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social Born at 314 ppm CO2. (We are now at 427.8 ppm CO2)
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That bloke from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge.
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Brandon Blackwell @brandon-2.bsky.social real-life quiz champion on 4 continents, television quiz villain on 3. pokemon master. not here to make friends™
Luke @welshboy82.bsky.social Biomedical research scientist by day 🔬, and stage performer by night 🎭. Dog dad to two whippets 🐾. Stay for the pet pics, singing, and occasional lefty ramblings. Also 🏳️🌈.
Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social Writer for hire. Mostly tech, Apple, games, retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for Stuff, Wired, TapSmart and others. He/him. GF/DF. Likes Lego and Mini Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell
Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, Lego builder. I’m @emmakennedy from the Bird Place.
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social 🔶Lib Dem Councillor for Ealing Common ward since 2002. Deputy Leader, Ealing Council Lib Dem group. Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery trustee.
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Father. Unfeasibly tall. Was young once. He/him.
Lynne Featherstone @lynnefeatherstone.bsky.social Former LibDem MP. Minister in Coalition. Originator and architect of the same sex marriage law. Peer. Book:Equal Ever After.
Adrian Sutherland @adriansutherland.bsky.social Co-Founder SmarterRent.co Single parent. Lives in Richmond. Often found on a yoga mat. SaintsFC ( sadly). Support Ukraine 🇺🇦 Trance music.
Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social Pro-Europe #socialist #RefugeesWelcome. Warning - I swear a lot because the world is on fire!
@sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social Journalist & Presenter | 📻 Formerly LBC ‘Sangita Myska 1-4pm Weekends ’, BBC @Radio4 Documentaries & 📺@BBCNews TV | @JSchofieldTrust | RTs not an endorsement
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Clive Jones MP @clivejonesmp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Wokingham.
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Former leader, Wokingham Borough Council.
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social Lib Dem MP-Mid Dorset & North Poole
Love to read, walk my crazy dog & investigate my family history.
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Dr Al Pinkerton MP @alpinkerton.bsky.social MP for Surrey Heath, @LiberalDemocrats Europe spokes. Geopolitics. Strategy.
Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social 💚 The UK's largest grassroots environmental community
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com Green Industrialist | Founder of Ecotricity, Skydiamond, Green Britain Foundation | Chairman of Forest Green Rovers | UN Climate Change Champion |
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social Actor, Writer & Broadcaster 
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social Lib Dem Life Peer. Party President 2020-5. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social Journalist. Sunderland Uni visiting prof. England's North East Riviera.
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social Excited to announce A NEW LIVE TOUR!
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Richard Vaughan @richardvaughan.bsky.social Director, Media at Public First/Stonehaven. Generally tired.
Tam Muir ⭐⭐ 🏴🇪🇺 @sirtammuir.bsky.social Likes: Aberdeen FC. Indie 🎶. 🏴 Independence.
Dislikes: Right wing politics. Fascists. Racists.
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Moira @moiragentry.bsky.social old lefty bookworm (mostly sffh & crime fiction); awkwardly ND; listens to (good) prog, watches horror movies, and makes quilts 📚♿ love, support, and defend 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
@thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social A point of view
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social Tan Smith.
Political Commentary.
Pisstaking.
Satire.
Dystopia Warner.
Writer.
Hate Tories? You’ll love me.
Woke as fuck.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social ‘Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.’
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social Writer, plant-lover, water-baby, #healthpolicy nerd. Ex-OpenDemocracy UK editor. NUJ/Unite/Green. Grew up on free school meals. Stroud-based. caroline.molloy@cantab.net
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social Content Creator 🤓
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Steve Bray @stevebraysodem.bsky.social Standing up to BREXIT
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social @Libdems.org.uk MP for Honiton & Sidmouth
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
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